Alexander keaeful



(No Model.)

A. KEARFUL.

HAME STAPLE AND TUG GLIP.

No. 247,254. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

a c 0 o 0 F Y a) e A Q B LIT/ eam MwmW A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER KEARFUL, 0E sr. JOSEPH, MIssouEI.

HAM E-STAPLE AND TUG-CLlP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,254, dated September 20, 1881.

Application filed June 17, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ALEXANDER KEARFUL, of St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hame-Staples and Tug- Clips, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to staples and clips with which the harness-tug is coupled to the hame.

Heretofore hame-staples have been commonly constructed with straight side bars and a curved end. The two side bars were driven through the hame and riveted, leaving enough of the curved end of the staple projecting from the hame to form an eye for the reception of the clip. Thejoint thus secured is like that of two chain-links joined together. This method is objectionable, because the clip at its junction with the staple presents a smallwearingsurface to the collar with which it constantly chafes, and soon wears a hole in the collar. The link-joint is also objectionable, because the wearing-surface between the staple and clip is very small, and the cutting of the metal by frictionunder draft is very rapid and soon destroys both staple and clip.

The object of my invention is to secure a broad flat wearing-surface next to the collar, which will obviate the first objection, and to secure a broad weariugsurface between the staple and clip, which will obviate the second objection-the rapid wearing of the metal of which the hame-staple and tug-clip are composed.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device as connected with the hame and tug. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the hame, showing an end view of the staple and an end sectional view of the clip. Fig. 3 shows an end sectional view of the hame and an edge view of the staple and clip. The staple in this view is cut in two at right angles to the-hame, showing an end sectional View of the cross-bar of the staple.

The staple B is constructed with a recess on the side next to the collar of sufficient depth to embed the metal of which the clip is composed, so that the inner surface of the clip will be on the same plane of the inner surface of the staple, by which I secure a flat wearingsurface against the collar, and if the end bar of the staple is eakened too much by reason of the recess, a corresponding raised surface on the outside of the staple will compensate for the loss of metal occasioned by the recess, and thus render the end bar as strong as either of the side bars. The staple B is also constructed with right angles, the two side bars and the end bar being perfectly straight, and the space between. the two side bars of the staple will be one. and one-eighth inch for ordinary harness.

The clip 0 is constructed in the form of a loop, and the metal of which it is constructed is of sufiicient width to fill the space between the side bars of the staple by which I secure a broad wearing-surface at thejunction of the staple and clip. The tug D is inserted between thejaws of the clip and secured there by rivets that pass through the jaws of the clip and tug.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

An angular-shaped hame-staple having a recess on the side next to the collar and a corresponding raisedsurface on the opposite side of the staple, in combination with a U-shaped clip composed of flat metal, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

S. R. OWEN, W. A. OWEN. 

